From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.

Today, Sterling Harjo, the showrunner and co-creator of the hit series Reservation Dogs.

It's a comedy drama focusing on a small group of teenagers living on a native reservation

in rural Oklahoma, wanting to escape the limitations of reservation life while also feeling

compelled to stay.

Many of the stories are drawn from Harjo's life growing up on a Muscogee Creek reservation.

Also Buzz Bissinger, author of the classic high school football book Friday Night Lights,

tells the story of college football stars Turn Marines who endured some of the most savage

fighting in World War II.

Bissinger's new book is called The Mosquito Bowl, and Ken Tucker reviews a collection

of previously unreleased early Lou Reed demos.

I'm waiting for a man.

First news.

If you haven't seen the hit TV series Reservation Dogs, the title should give you a sense of it.

Set on a native reservation in Oklahoma, it's about a group of teenagers and the people

surrounding them.

The quirky way some of the characters constantly quote pop culture and use it as reference

points seems to owe a debt to Quentin Tarantino films.

The series is part comedy and part drama about teenagers wanting to break away from the

reservation and all the seeming dead ends it represents while also finding reasons to

stay.

The characters face generational differences on the reservation and the confusion of growing

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